Serving a dynamic gadget from the robot app

[Flavio Coelho]

Hi I want to serve a gadget which I modify according to data collected
by the robot. So I want to generate the gadget XML dynamically and
serve at using the same app for example at myrobot.appspot.com/gadget/

I haven't figured out how to do this.

any ideas?

[David Nesting]

This seems pretty straightforward to do within appengine.  Rather than serve a static XML document from a static_dir or static_files handler, serve it from a script.  The script could accept query or path parameters to customize the XML it emits.  If you need details, what language are you working in?

David

[pamela (Google Employee)]

I believe the IMDBotty sample does something like that, using the Python SDK and Django templates:

http://wave-samples-gallery.appspot.com/about_app?app_id=48018

- pamela

[hcvst]

Hi Flavio,

let your bot add the gadget and include some query-string parameters
such as
the wave-id when it does, so that you can correlate in subsequent
requests on that
id.

I've used that approach for my wavedirectory.net. Source available at
github.
http://example.com/gadget.xml?waveid=id

Regards,
HC